Around 350,000 years ago, the centre of New Zealand's North Island looked nothing like the mountainous, scrub-covered ...

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The latest eruption from Mount Etna, which is on the island of Sicily, lit up the night sky and could be seen from miles away ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted from its summit early Thursday, shooting a huge plume of ash miles into the sky and prompting authorities to urge area residents to take cover. The Hawaii Volcano ...

Imagine an eruption lasting not days, but 4 million years. Millions of cubic kilometers of lava bury entire continents, the ...

How big can volcanic eruptions get on Jupiter’s moon, Io? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as an international team of scientists ...

“It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” said one marine geologist. A New Zealand-led team of marine geologists investigating an underwater volcano that erupted on Jan. 15 in the Tongan ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

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